I DWELL NOW [photography] 2013 |

I DWELL NOW [photography] 2013

diy housing in contemporary greece

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A collection of extemporaneous buildings, individual or forming districts / communities. A contemporary vernacular architecture formed by its dwellers and the landscape surrounding them. An Architecture that can refer to marginalized slums and natural building.
Ephemeral, seasonal or permanent structures of cheap and easily accessible materials such as natural or recycled. Sites with unclear boundaries of the interior and exterior, often common or without property regime, which can be created by a single dweller or by a series of ephemeral inhabitants.
Formed by the housing need of the human body and its current needs, these shelters are imposed on weak and marginalized sections of society but for other social sections, they are chosen by free will .
The purpose of this on going project is to help them emerge as cultural heritage, historic and collective memory vehicles. Highlighting another approach of habitation and building, liberated from monumentality and expert groups designing, focusing on the present.
I DWELL NOW
concept, research, photography: Elli Vassalou
The project was initiated and presented in the architectural photography workshop of Monumenta organisation Photographing Monuments, topographies of cultural heritage: professors Stergios Karavatou and Jeff Vanderpool, March 2013. Group exhibition Athens House of photography 2013, Romantzo Cultural space 2014, Athens GR